Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Easter found us enjoying a good old fashioned Easter Egg hunt in the backyard with friends.  The neighborhood hunt which we were going to attend was cancelled due to cold weather.  However, by the afternoon, things had warmed up significantly.  

 For funsies we did some extra stuff like Easter Egg relay races. 

 And an Easter Egg bucket toss.

The night before Easter, Josh confided in me that he would like to do an Easter Scavenger hunt with the kids.  The plan was to hide their Easter baskets in the guest room and leave a series of twelve clues around the house and yard leading them to said baskets.  Only hitch was a certain child woke up on the wrong side of the bed and mistakenly thought this was the same concept as the Easter Egg hunt the day before where you make a mad dash for any and all eggs you can find.  So, when Ryan, our reader, would dash off and inevitably pick up the egg clue first, Dylan went into melt down mode.  Ryan, being a good big brother, scaled back and tried to help Dylan by letting him get the egg clues first.  But at this point Dylan was disillusioned and ran upstairs and threw himself in bed, putting the covers up over his face.  It took some consoling and serious talking to get him to join the "fun" again. 

Easter Traditions are fun.  Every year we do a basket for the kids.  Usually it contains some item of clothing they can wear to church that day (a new shirt, or hat) a chocolate bunny or cross,  and a few candy filled Easter Eggs.  This year, I put the childrens devotional "God's Names" by Sally Michael in his basket.  This came highly recommended by a friend and so far I have been very impressed with it.  The premise of the book is that by learning the names of God (e.g. Elohim, Jehoviah Jirah, Jehovah Shalom, etc), you learn ore about the nature and character of God.  Dylan received two new Donut Man cd's.  

We enjoyed going to the Easter Service at Church and taking some pictures to mark the occasion (and everyone happened to look nicer than usual, so that's always a bonus

 

Happy Easter!